Top
officials at the Department of Homeland Security recently revealed
that arrests for child sex crimes during the first two years of Operation
Predator have exceeded 6,000 and 85 percent of them are criminal immigrants.

Operation
Predator is Immigration and Customs Enforcement's comprehensive initiative
to safeguard children from foreign national pedophiles, international
sex tourists, Internet child pornographers and human traffickers.
Operation Predator evolved out of ICE's mission to find and deport
illegal aliens, particularly those with criminal records. The majority
of the arrests under Operation Predator - roughly 85% - have involved
foreign nationals in this country whose child sex crimes make them
removable from the United States. By matching immigration databases
with state Megan's law directories, ICE agents have arrested more
than 1,800 registered sex offenders.

Since
Operation Predator began on July 9, 2003, the initiative has resulted
in 6,085 child predator arrests throughout the country - an average
of roughly 250 arrests per month and eight arrests per day. While
arrests have been made in every state, the most have occurred in these
states: Arizona
(207), California (1,578), Florida (255), Illinois (282), Michigan
(153), Minnesota (190), New Jersey (423), New York (367), Oregon (148)
and Texas (545).

Operation
Predator also has an important international component, as leads developed
by domestic ICE offices are shared with ICE Attach - offices overseas
and foreign law enforcement for action. To date, leads shared by ICE
with foreign authorities have resulted in the arrest of roughly 1,000
individuals overseas.

With
an average of nearly 250 child sex predator arrests per month, ICE's
Operation Predator has emerged as one of most successful efforts ever
launched to protect America's children. In enforcing the nation's
immigration laws, ICE is systematically targeting those who pose the
greatest threats, including criminal aliens who prey on our children.

Some
recent ICE arrests involving criminal aliens who committed child sex
crimes include Julio Cesar Rabago-Magana, a Mexican man who raped
a four-year-old child in the basement of Mercado Central in Minneapolis,
Minn. Rabago-Magana pleaded guilty Oct. 23, 2002 to first-degree criminal
sexual conduct. After serving his criminal sentence, he was arrested
by ICE agents at his St. Paul home on March 3, 2005, and deported
six days later.

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To
date, more than 2,100 of these foreign-born predators have been removed
from the United States to their home nations. As part of this process,
ICE advises the host nation governments about the criminal histories
of each sex predator it is deporting to their nations. ICE also issues
Green Notices through Interpol in appropriate cases. The Green Notice
provides information on career criminals who have committed, or are
likely to commit, offenses in several countries.

Sources:

US
Department of Homeland Security,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
National Security Institute

Jim Kouri, CPP
is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs
of Police. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington
Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the
1980s. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police
and security officers throughout the country.

He writes for
many police and crime magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times,
The Narc Officer, Campus Law Enforcement Journal, and others. He's appeared
as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including
Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book
Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com, Booksamillion.com, and
can be ordered at local bookstores.